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30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet: Day 23

I think this stage of my 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet is going to produce the greatest amount of growth in my character.

The cold chills I had been having for a few days when I last posted on day #18 of this diet seemed to fade for a while, but now are back in full force.

Tonight was the worst of the cold spells. I just couldn’t seem to warm up my hands even though I was squeezing them behind my knees as I sat cross-legged on the couch. My body just was not able to produce enough heat.

It has also become increasingly difficult to ignore solid food when I see people eating it around me. I have been drinking nothing but V8 Vegetable cocktail for 23 days now while avoiding all solid food. Everything I see looks appealing from a dietary standpoint.

What gets me the most about having been away from solid food for so long while following my 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet is just how amazing regular food smells. I always found it nice to walk into my home after work and smell something good cooking in the kitchen, but Lyann’s meals are driving me crazy now.

Something as simple as a can of flaked tuna mixed together with a little bit of mayonnaise and spices makes my mouth water. I’ll stick my face right into the bowls Lyann uses to hold her food and then inhale as deeply as possible. It is hard to imagine how good the food Lyann and I will have on our free day at the end of this month is going to taste.

There have been a few times during this V8 Vegetable Cocktail Diet that I have wanted to quit, but quitting before my 30 days are up would make me a hypocrite. What good would it do for me to quit my diet early when I constantly preach about taking personal responsibility for your weight and health?

Your character is built fastest when you feel like giving up but refuse to do so. Winning the weight loss battle is like being the boxer who gets up off his stool for one more round, even when he thinks he can’t. Be like Rocky Balboa and strive to go the distance.

My V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet And Campbell’s Soup Company

Part of my public relations campaign for this 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet included firing off an email to the Campbell’s Soup Company, the makers of V8 Vegetable Cocktail to thank them for their fine product.

I’ll admit that this email was partially self-serving as I was hoping to gain a bit of media attention for my efforts while living off nothing but V8 Vegetable Cocktail.  I doubted if I would even get a response from the company when I informed them of my plans, but something did arrive in the mail maybe two days ago now.

Campbell’s Soup Company is a huge organization with annual sales of over seven billion dollars, so I figured that they probably wouldn’t miss a few dollars spent on maintaining good customer relations.  The package they sent me in response to my email makes me wonder just how many people contact them in this manner each year and what level of commitment they have to their customer’s satisfaction.

Part of what I got back from the Campbell’s Soup Company in response to my email praising their products was a short letter thanking me for my comments.  Here is a copy of the letter I received from Campbell’s Consumer Response Center:

At first glance, this seems like a great letter!  I was really enthusiastic about opening up the envelope this letter arrived in because I initially thought it was pretty good of a company the size of Campbell’s to get back to me at all when all I did was fill out a comment form on their website.

However, despite the sincerity expressed in the letter, the gift that accompanied the letter was not anything to rave about.  I plan on saving both the letter and accompanying gift in a shadow-box of sorts so that I have something to remember this 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet by.

I remember that I paid well over $200.00 for the V8 Vegetable Cocktail I am drinking during this diet.  I thought a company like Campbell’s would see value in supporting me in my endeavours, but they came up a little short in that department.

Included with the letter I received from the Campbell’s Soup Company was a small token of their appreciation for my comments and my efforts to promote their brand.  I received the coupon pictured below from the Campbell’s Soup Company, which as you can see is worth two dollars:

Two dollars seems like pretty small change for a company that according to its own annual report makes over seven billion dollars in annual sales worldwide.

If I was contacted by someone who had the tenacity to stick to a diet like my 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet and who was constantly promoting my brand to friends, co-workers and complete strangers, I would be motivated to cover the cost of such an undertaking.

Even meeting me halfway on the total cost of this project would have put the Campbell’s Soup Company into a position of higher regard in my own mind.  I got more than two dollars discount on each of the cases of V8 I bought for this trial when I picked them up from the local Costco warehouse.

It doesn’t make sense that Costco helped me out more than Campbell’s when it came to financing this diet.

Regardless, I cannot say no to any help I receive and if that was all Campbell’s could afford then I receive it gladly.  I just would have handled the whole thing differently.  I didn’t want or need to be splashed all over television like Jared of Subway fame, but a little more financial help would have been good.

My Current Weight And Body Fat %

Weight: 159.0 lbs

Change In Body Fat: – 5.2%

It has been five days since I last posted here about my 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet and accompanying results.  My weight has dropped further and my body fat percentage has also decreased just during that short time.

I have now lost a total of 15.4 lbs and dropped my body fat percentage reading by 5.2% in only 23 days of avoiding solid food and drinking nothing but V8 Vegetable Cocktail.

I have actually been surprised that my weight did not drop more rapidly over the past few days.  Though the love handles I had around my waist at the beginning of this diet have certainly shrunk, I do seem to be retaining more water than expected.

I get picky when I look at myself in the mirror during a weight loss diet of any kind, but I know that I have made some amazing progress because I can see the lower numbers on my scale and I am already able to fit into some of the pants I found too tight when this whole venture started.

With only seven days left to go, I am doubtful that I will make it down to the 150.0 lb level I was aiming for at the beginning of this diet.  That would make my total weight loss equal to about 25.0 lbs over 30 days.

It is amazing that I have been able to completely reverse in only 30 days what took me six months to gain beforehand.  You too can fix your weight problem with a little focus applied in the right direction.  Don’t look at where you are.  Look at where you’re going and never take your eyes off your goal.

Summary

There’s only seven days left until I will have accomplished my first major goal of 2010, the completion of my 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet!

It certainly has not been easy up to this point having to ignore solid food and gulp down twelve cans of V8 Vegetable Cocktail per day.  There have been days where I got behind and had to shotgun my last few cans of the day.  Drinking too many cans of V8 in a row can make you feel ill.

I didn’t know if I could make it all the way through this diet when I first thought it up, but I knew I had created a weight problem for myself by gaining thirty pounds between July and December of 2009 and that something needed to be done about it.

I could have found a million reasons why it was a good idea to put off getting started on a weight loss plan, but then the year would have begun to slip by without me having anything of significance to look back upon.

It is easy to put things off in any area of life until you take an honest look at yourself and begin to learn to take responsibility for your own actions and circumstances.  When I count the price of procrastination, I get all the motivation I need to make necessary positive changes in my life.

Had I not planned to undertake this 30 Day V8 Vegetable Juice Quick Weight Loss Diet prior to the beginning of 2010, I would still be nearly 30.0 lbs overweight and sitting around feeling sorry for myself.

A little planning and determination were all that was needed to put me back in a happy state of mind and a healthy state of being.  You can have the same results and the same feeling of accomplishment as I am currently experiencing if you make some responsible dietary decisions and stick to them.

I’m not giving up on my V8 Vegetable Cocktail Diet and I’m certainly never giving up on any of you.  I’ll not be a hypocrite.  I’ll finish this V8 diet and celebrate in style when my free day rolls around at the end of this month.  Make sure to watch for my post and video on January 31, 2010 where I’ll show you how I reward myself for just one day for having been so responsible for the rest of the month.

I’ll be enjoying myself for sure, because as someone once said, “Nobody ever got fat by eating one big meal.”

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